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Thank you very much!

Well, my girlfriend i and was lucky today once again,and i have taken vol.2 version but with another dragonfly and glasses this time. Not sure about species, but looks some kinda anax emperor,with more brown colors.
This was also very special, as before that i have taken lots of closeups,so i have very large collection of this beautiful creature as well.
Small version for now here : http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/3112/laesperanza2ok.jpg

Personally, I don't really care about real or fake...

Congratulations for this great shot! I also liked your other challenge entries by the way.

GL

And just to add one more thing, i wrote if you wanna SEE raw, not if you wanna GET it.

If you look again, there is smile at the end. :)
On a screenshot there is extension .ARW (sony RAW) and again, a lot of thumbs, but whatever i do just to prove that image is real and not fake there always will be someone who wouldn't accept it. End of story from me.
Greetings from Croatia where dragonfly has landed on nose :)

> Why would i send you a RAW? Are you nuts?

It was in fact YOU who asked if people wanted to see the RAW file.

When someone says yes you do not.

You can hardly expect any other reaction but doubt. Unfortunately there is a lot of fake imagery being passed off as photos. I don't understand why people do this, but they do. It doesn't look real to me, but then I don't actually care whether it is or not.

I can understand you might not wish to release the RAW file, but you offered without prompting. You can't have it both ways. Perhaps a rash statement on your part, and perhaps something to avoid doing in future posts.

Why would i send you a RAW? Are you nuts?
RAW is just mine and will always be. I don't need to excuse to anyone, if you don't believe that picture is just real as it is, well, that's your problem , not mine.
And yeah, just a screenshot, where you can see whole bunch of shots taken, not just on her nose, but even on finger and so on. With this kind of comments people just want to show how they can be jealous.

So when asked for the RAW file you don't produce it. Call this a screenshot if you like, but it's not a RAW file and it proves nothing.

And you wonder why we're sceptical ?

Well folks, thanx for everyone replay. For skeptics, here is a download link where you can see thumbnails from folders of entire session with dragonfly, one partly opened RAW file with Sony's IDC,so you cannot tell that picture is fake or something else about background and so on.
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4097/laesperanzascreenshot.jpg
Just to add, my beautiful girlfriend isn't scared at all from bugs or anything else, she just enjoy in nature and with her and all those wonderful creatures i can get picture like this. Cheerz! :)

Yes I would like to see the RAW.

It looks a great shot, realy it does, i can see why there are some set up comments because of the pursed lips of the woman (not the dragon fly) and it doesn't look right on her nose. The moon landings were called fake too, this is a great shot and i bet when she opened her eyes she freaked out!!!

Well, at the begining I said, wonderful moment, fantastic shot. And I thought that criticism of some people is nothing more than envy. But then, then I began to doubt myself as well if that wasn't an arranged snap. The girl is much too calm! She would certainly want to do grimaso, especially if it touched her face such a huge monster.

You could have asked the insect to smile! Would have been better.

Blur is because of far background and F8 which isn't that much DOF for such a magnification. Nothing was done with blurring, the background was just like that, green grass. Only face was cleaned up a bit and nothing else. Wanna see RAW? :)

Thanx again for viewing and comments dear people.

Sometimes is hard to accept that some people are just able to make such incredible pictures ;-).

I'll stand by my earlier comment, to me this is a seriously "overcooked" image.

Great shot! :)

Congratulations! a well deserved win.

Nice, pity that is not among the best tales in > Reviewing and challenging the best tales ( I )

*Congratulations!*

Regards,
RazvanRO

No clue which insect that is.
Her lips (the human's!) are gorgeous.
Great composition, use of DOF, colors including skin tones, well done!

byteseller wrote:
> Strange, the green uber-blurred background on this image, the glow around the nose, and a couple of other details looks off to me....

what about the mirrored image of the insect on the sun glasses? Get real mate... Since you look into all the details i wonder why you missed this one.

Strange, the green uber-blurred background on this image, the glow around the nose, and a couple of other details looks off to me....

congratulations! great shot, Kudos to your subject for being so composed during this experience too! :)